June 10, 2025

Search API in alpha

The Parallel Search API is now available in alpha - providing a tool for AI agents to search, rank, and extract information from the public web. Built on Parallel’s custom web crawler and index, the Search API takes flexible inputs (search objective and/or search queries) and returns LLM-ready ranked URLs with extended webpage excerpts. Learn more in our latest blog.

curl --request POST \
  --url https://api.parallel.ai/alpha/search \
  --header "Content-Type: application/json" \
  --header "x-api-key: $PARALLEL_API_KEY" \
  --data '{
    "objective": "When was the United Nations established? Prefer UN'\''s websites.",
    "search_queries": [
      "Founding year UN",
      "Year of founding United Nations"
    ],
    "processor": "base",
    "max_results": 5,
    "max_chars_per_result": 1500
  }'

May 30, 2025

Chat API in beta

The Parallel Chat API is now generally available in beta. The Chat API utilizes our rapidly growing web index to bring real-time low latency web research to interactive AI applications. It returns OpenAI ChatCompletions compatible streaming text and JSON outputs, and easily drops in to new and existing web research workflows. Learn more in our latest blog.

from openai import OpenAI

client = OpenAI(
    api_key="PARALLEL_API_KEY",  # Your Parallel API key
    base_url="https://beta.parallel.ai"  # Parallel's API beta endpoint
)

response = client.chat.completions.create(
    model="speed", # Parallel model name
    messages=[
        {"role": "user", "content": "What does Parallel Web Systems do?"}
    ],
    response_format={
        "type": "json_schema",
        "json_schema": {
            "name": "reasoning_schema",
            "schema": {
                "type": "object",
                "properties": {
                    "reasoning": {
                        "type": "string",
                        "description": "Think step by step to arrive at the answer",
                    },
                    "answer": {
                        "type": "string",
                        "description": "The direct answer to the question",
                    },
                    "citations": {
                        "type": "array",
                        "items": {"type": "string"},
                        "description": "Sources cited to support the answer",
                    },
                },
            },
        },
    },
)

print(response.choices[0].message.content)
May 21, 2025

Basis with Calibrated Confidences

Basis is a comprehensive suite of verification tools for understanding and validating Task API outputs through four core components.

  1. Citations: Web URLs linking directly to source materials.
  2. Reasoning: Detailed explanations justifying each output field.
  3. Excerpts: Relevant text snippets from citation URLs.
  4. Confidences: A calibrated measure of confidence classified into low, medium, or high categories.

Use Basis with Calibrated Confidences to power hybrid AI/human review workflows focused on low confidence outputs - significantly increasing leverage, accuracy, and time efficiency. Read more in our latest blog post.

{
 "field": "revenue",
 "citations": [
   {
     "url": "https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/Investor/earnings/FY-2023-Q4/press-release-webcast",
     "excerpts": ["Microsoft reported fiscal year 2023 revenue of $211.9 billion, an increase of 7% compared to the previous fiscal year."]
   },
   {
     "url": "https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/789019/000095017023014837/msft-20230630.htm",
     "excerpts": ["Revenue was $211.9 billion for fiscal year 2023, up 7% compared to $198.3 billion for fiscal year 2022."]
   }
 ],
 "reasoning": "The revenue figure is consistent across both the company's investor relations page and their official SEC filing. Both sources explicitly state the fiscal year 2023 revenue as $211.9 billion, representing a 7% increase over the previous year.",
 "confidence": "high"
}

Billing Upgrades

We’ve made several improvements to help you more seamlessly manage and monitor Billing. This includes:

  • Auto-reload: Avoid service interruptions by automatically adding to your balance when configured thresholds are met.
  • Billing History: View prior Invoices and Receipts. Track status, amount charged, and timestamp of charges.

April 24, 2025

Task API for web research

The Parallel Task API enables state-of-the-art web research at scale, with the highest quality at every price point. State your research task in natural language and Parallel will do the rest of the heavy lifting - generating input/output schemas, finding relevant URLs, extracting data in a structured format.

from parallel import Parallel
from pydantic import BaseModel, Field

class ProductInfo(BaseModel):
    use_cases: str = Field(
        description="A few use cases for the product."
    )
    differentiators: str = Field(
        description="3 unique differentiators for the product as a bullet list."
    )
    benchmarks: str = Field(
        description="Detailed benchmarks of the product reported by the company."
    )

client = Parallel()
result = client.task_run.execute(
    input="Parallel Web Systems Task API",
    output=ProductInfo,
    processor="core"
)

print(f"Product info: {result.output.parsed.model_dump_json(indent=2)}\n")
print(f"Basis: {'\n'.join([b.model_dump_json(indent=2) for b in result.output.basis])}")

Python SDK

Our SDK is now available for Python, making it easy to implement Parallel into your applications. The Python SDK is at parity with our Task API endpoints and simplifies request construction and response parsing.

Flexible Processors

When running Tasks with Parallel, choose between 5 processors - Lite, Base, Core, Pro, and Ultra. We’ve built distinct processor options so that you can optimize price, latency, and quality per task.

Self-Serve Developer Platform

Platform is the home for Playground, API Keys, Docs, Billing, Usage, and more.

  • Run a research task from scratch or using a template from Task Library
  • Generate and manage API keys for secure integration
  • Manage billing details, auto-reload settings, and usage analytics
  • Access comprehensive guides to learn how to use the API